For my primary project in Project Development Studio with Stefani Bardin, I am planning to make 3-5 more physical word cameras. These models will iterate on my prior physical word camera by printing relevant passages from specific authors, based on convolutional neural network analysis of captured images.
I have not yet chosen the authors I plan to embed in these cameras, or how I plan to present the extracted text. I also have tentative plans for a new iteration of the talking surveillance camera I developed last semester, but more on that will be provided in future posts.
This week, I spent some time on eBay finding a few broken medium- and large-format cameras to use as cases. Here’s what I bought (for $5 to $25 each):
I am current waiting to receive them so that I can start planning the builds. Below is a list of the additional parts that will be required for each camera:
Raspberry Pi 2 ($40)
85.60mm x 56mm x 21mm (or roughly 3.37″ x 2.21″ x 0.83″)
Raspberry Pi Camera Board ($30)
25mm x 20mm x 9mm
Buck Converter ($10)
51 * 26.3 * 14 (L * W * H) (mm)
7.4V LiIon Battery Pack ($90)
22mm (0.9″) x 104mm (4.1″) x 107mm (4.2″)
OR two USB batteries ($40)
Thermal Printer ($25 from China or $50 from U.S.)
~4 1/8″ (105mm) x 2 1/4″ (58mm) for rectangular hole
~58mm deep
On/Off Switch ($1)
18.60mm x 12.40mm rectangular hole
13.9mm deep
LED Button ($5)
Shutter button, user will hold for 3 seconds to turn off Raspberry Pi
16mm round hole
~1.5″ deep
1/4-size permaproto board ($3)
1/4″ Acrylic ($12) or Broken Medium Format TLR ($30-69)
Jumper Wires ($2)
